Linkerd surpasses Istio adoption in Europe and North America with 118% growth in 2021
Guest post originally published on Linkerd’s blog by William Morgan The 2021 Cloud Native survey results were published last week, and the results are striking: production usage of Linkerd in 2021 surpassed that of Istio in both North America and…
Salt came to Linkerd for load balancing, stayed for efficiency, reliability & performance
Salt Security is tackling the security challenges of today’s API-dependent applications. API requests can represent tens of thousands of opportunities per second for attacks or PII exposure. To combat these risks, Salt runs AI and ML against its…
CNCF End User Lounge: How Penn State scheduled 68k COVID tests with Linkerd
In this live stream, Dom DePasquale shares how Linkerd enabled the software engineering team at Penn State to quickly troubleshoot performance issues when sending 68K COVID test invites to students, faculty, and staff earlier this year. The initial…
Cloud Native Live: Introduction to Policy with Linkerd 2.11
Linkerd 2.11. We’ll talk you through how the project has been changing since graduation and dive into the new features in Linkerd 2.11. You’ll see a walkthrough of the new policy features in Linkerd and how they can…
Benchmarking Linkerd and Istio: 2021 redux
Guest post originally published on Linkerd’s blog by William Morgan Earlier this year, we published Linkerd vs Istio benchmarks comparing the performance and resource consumption of the two service meshes on a simple microservice application under various levels of load….
Cloud Native Live: Service mesh 101: an introduction with Linkerd
Installing a service mesh doesn’t have to be hard. Jason Morgan will walk you through what a service mesh is and how to get started with Linkerd. By the end of this stream, you’ll be comfortable installing Linkerd…
Improving platform efficiency, reliability, and performance in one week with Linkerd
Guest post by Eli Goldberg and Omri Zamir, Platform Team at Salt Security At Salt Security, we pioneered API security. Purpose-built to protect APIs across their entire life cycle, the Salt platform enables our customers to prevent API…
How Linkerd retries HTTP requests with bodies
Guest post originally published on Linkerd’s blog by Eliza Weisman Linkerd 2.11 is here and with it are some cool new updates. One I am particularly excited about (full disclosure: I worked on it), is retries for HTTP requests…
TFIR: “Emissary-ingress Announces Official Support By Linkerd, Istio”
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) incubating project Emissary-ingress, an open source ingress controller and API gateway for Kubernetes, has announced official support by major service mesh communities Linkerd (a graduated CNCF project) and Istio.